This collection consists of correspondence from and to Shaler Hillyer. Also included is his journal, along with Captain John Freeman's estate inventory and the journals of Marian (also spelled Marion) Jean Hillyer, a descendant of Shaler Hillyer's, as a young girl documenting various trips her family took in the 1880s and 1890s.

This collection consist of seven patriotic envelopes and two editions of Guinea Gold, Australian Edition dating May 16, 1945 and August 10, 1945. The two papers were newspapers for soldiers in camp. Six of the seven envelopes were mailed to Edward V. Sachtleben of Newark, New Jersey.